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What did some northern states do to oppose the fugitive slave act

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Under the United States Constitution, slave owners had the right to reclaim slaves who ran away to free states. With the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the federal government had to assist the slave owners. ... Northern abolitionists opposed this law.

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